Fiction. Asian Studies. Indolent, inflamed, political, perfumed, tactile and tragic, Prakash Kona's first novel STREETS THAT SMELL OF DYING ROSES is a hovering meditation on the dust of Hyderabad, the interior life of the street, poverty, sexuality, minglings of gender, and the power structures that attempt to make love and language into weapons. "...This is the book that many younger authors have tried to write and failed--one that disassembles language, narrative and structure, throwing them all into a molten semantic stream...A comparison to Joyce's Ulysses seems apt, both in breadth of experiment and to only a slightly lesser extent, quality. On the strength of this work, Prakash Kona seems poised for greatness. Highly recommended." Absinthe Literary Review.